Vase

Manufacturer Tiffany Studios; Tiffany Furnaces (American)

Designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933)

Dateabout 1927

DimensionsH 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.); D rim 9.0 cm (3 17/32 in.); D base 7.7 cm (3 1/32 in.)

MediumOrange-amber glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. C. Justus Wilcox

Object number

1962.29

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and finished by tooling. Decorated with applied and tooled purplish-colored glass. Overlaid with colorless glass. Applied button pontil mark, semipolished.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 69.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Treasures from Toledo, Ohio: The European and American Glass Collection," Apollo, vol. 86, December 1967, pp. 478-485, repr. p. 485, fig. 20, left.

Labino, Dominick, Visual Art in Glass, Dubuque, Iowa, W. C. Brown, 1968, repr. p. 103, fig. 87.

Beard, repr. p. 55, bottom left.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 628, no. 1022.